For 1:18, Baltimore's Theatre Project Offering Free Tickets, Passing the Hat

               1:18 (One Hour Eighteen)
                           by Elena Gremina

     The Center for International Theatre Develoment
              Wed February 22 - Sun February 26

Elena Gremina is one of Russia’s most important playwrights. This play has been hailed by many as a unique new direction in Russian playwriting because it takes a difficult ongoing subject and does not disguise the names of real people involved. While pressure was put on the theatre not to stage this play, they didn’t back down - and so far it has run for several months without any negative consequences to those involved.

One Hour Eighteen (1:18) is an important play. It's so important that it is being mounted at Baltimore's Theatre Project and the tickets are free. The theatre will just pass a hat following the performances.

In January 2009, Sergei Magnitsky, a young Russian tax lawyer was arrested and imprisoned without trial on charges of tax fraud - Eleven months later, he was dead.

1:18 tells the true story of a senseless tragedy, a series of small steps taken by ordinary people in a corrupt, crumbling justice system.

In 2011, New York Times journalist Ellen Barry won a Pulitzer Prize for her detailed coverage of this case, which exposed the flagrant violations of human rights that continue on in Russia.

1:18 uses court transcripts, interviews, Magnitsky's own letters from prison, and fictional accounts that piece together what might have happened.

"It’s about normal people taking small steps that somehow lead to somebody dying. Each one of us can become the vessel for something really horrible." -- 1:18 director Yury Urnov

1:18 by Elena Gremina
Translated by Yury Urnov and Stephen Nunns
Directed by Yury Urnov

                            Director, Yury Urnov (center)

Performed by: Temple Crocker, Shannon McPhee, Stephen Nunns, and Yury Urnov

Post-show discussion panel following each performance:

   Feb 22:  

David M. White, WordBRIDGE Lab 

Nathan Cooper, Single Carrot Theatre

   Feb 23:  

Yury Urnov, Director, Moscow

Buck Jabaily, Baltimore Open Theatre

   Feb 24:  

Barbara Lanciers, Associate Director Trust for Mutual Understanding, NYC

   Feb 25:  

Bonnie Tamres-Moore, Founding Member, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, 

Suzanne O’Hatnick, Director Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture

   Feb 26: 

Maureen Daly, Jack Gohn, Peggy Meyer, Peace and Justice Committee, St. Vincent’s Catholic Church, Baltimore.

 

Tickets are Free! We will be passing the hat.

 

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